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Towneley Green remembrance album

Description: An album containing photographs of Towneley Green and clippings about his death in 1899. Pasted inside the front cover is a card: "Charlecote. 3 Hampstead Hill Gardens." There are several interior views of Towneley Green's house, where he lived until his death in 1899. One clipping has a photograph of Green and the credit "Photograph from a portrait by the Misses Dalziel." Grace and Dora Dalziel took photographs and often used a joint credit.
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Date: approximately 1898-1899
Call number: Volume 15
Creator: Dalziel family(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from H. M. Fletcher, 1948.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Photograph album from Towneley Green

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An album of about 30 photographs mounted on paper, inscribed "To G. & D. Dalziel / From their friend Towneley Green, Christmas 1898." Most likely, "G. & D." are Grace and Dora Dalziel, who took many photographs of family members. The album contains several portraits of an unidentified man (Green?), Dalziel family members, images of interior rooms of an elegant house, and a group photograph of men and women on a tennis court.

Volume 14

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Family album

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An album of 57 photographs of Edward Dalziel's extended family and their home in Hampstead. "Hampstead" is written under some images. Some informal outdoor portraits of Dora and Grace Dalziel (perhaps taken by each other), and their brothers, Charles, Gilbert, and Wilfrid. One group portrait of men and women with tennis rackets, and a Mr. Cunningham and Hal Ludlow. One mounted photograph in album of a very elderly man in slippers, possibly George or Edward Dalziel? Photographs most likely taken by Dora and Grace Dalziel.

Volume 6

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Family album

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An album of 42 photographs of Dalziel family outside a country house (Hampstead?), informal portraits, horses, family groups, a woman on a bicycle. The album has no identifications or dates, but it includes a newspaper clipping from March 30, 1878 titled "Mr. Charles Green's Costume Ball" regarding a party at the studio of artist Charles Green at Charlecote, Hampstead-hill-gardens, with a long list of attendees.

Volume 5

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Family album

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A disbound album of family photographs mounted on board. Some penciled identifications, including "Charlie" (Charles Dalziel), and Dora Dalziel at Brighton; Wilfrid Dalziel with "Farmer" after his name; other family members; a country house called "Manor Farm, Wiltshire"; and a man named L. H. Chandler.

Volume 3

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"Somerset" album

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A disbound album of photographs mounted on board, with handwriting on the first page: "These are all Somerset photos." Images show a large country house, scenery, people in a garden, portraits of house workers, dogs, horses. Several members of the Edward Dalziel family appear. The last image has a credit "G. Dalziel," possibly Grace Dalziel. One loose image of a plant has handwritten notes on back regarding exposure time of photograph.

Volume 2

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Family album

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A disbound album of 32 photographs, including informal portraits of a little girl (possibly salt prints). Scenes show men, women and children in a country setting, sitting in a garden, and group and individual portraits. Appears to be Edward Dalziel's adult children, Dora, Grace, and others. Two studio portraits also, of E. Hunter Blair and Prince Victor of (Hotzenlake?). Photographs possibly taken by Dora and Grace Dalziel.

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